Use filltext.com API and lorempixel.com to generate dummy product data

dummy-products.php

<?php

// Use filltext.com API and lorempixel.com to generate dummy product data
// Based off: https://github.com/sandermangel/magento-dummy-installers
// Usage: Upload this file to tmp/ under magento root or modify require_once, execute.

// env config
ini_set('display_errors', 1);
umask(0);

// mage setup
require_once '../app/Mage.php';
Mage::app()->setCurrentStore(Mage_Core_Model_App::ADMIN_STORE_ID);


// input values
define('CATEGORY_ID', 4); // Category ID to assign all products created to
define('PRODUCT_QTY', 15); // Number of products to generate
define('IMAGES_PER_PRODUCT', 4); // Number of images per product
define('LIPSUM_API', 'http://filltext.com/?rows=10&lipsum={lorem|220}&pretty=true'); // http://filltext.com/
define('IMAGE_API', 'http://lorempixel.com/700/700/cats/'); // http://lorempixel.com/ (everyone luvs cats!)

// make an array with all websites
$website_ids = array();
foreach (Mage::app()->getWebsites() as $website)
	$website_ids[] = $website->getId();

echo "Creating ".PRODUCT_QTY." Dummy Products...";

for ($i = 0; $i < PRODUCT_QTY; $i++)
{
	$dummy_text 		= json_decode(file_get_contents(sprintf(LIPSUM_API, 500+$i)), true);
	if(!$dummy_text[0])	{
		die("Problem with filltext API");
	}	
	$dummy_title 		= substr($dummy_text[0]['lipsum'], 0, 30); 
	$dummy_shortdescr 	= substr($dummy_text[0]['lipsum'], 31, 220); 
	$dummy_descr 		= substr($dummy_text[0]['lipsum'], 221); 
	$dummy_sku 			= substr(str_shuffle('abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789'), 0, 10); 
	
	$rand_price 		= rand(10, 999);
	$cost_price 		= rand(10, ($rand_price/2));
	$special_price 		= rand($cost_price, ($rand_price/2));

	zend_debug::dump($dummy_title);

	$product = Mage::getModel('catalog/product');
	$product->setData(array(
		'name'				=> $dummy_title,
		'sku'				=> $dummy_sku,
		'short_description'	=> $dummy_shortdescr,
		'description'		=> $dummy_descr,
		'price'				=> number_format($rand_price / 10, 2, '.', ''),
		'cost'				=> number_format($cost_price / 10, 2, '.', ''),
		'weight'			=> number_format(rand(1,10), 2, '.',''),
		'status'			=> Mage_Catalog_Model_Product_Status::STATUS_ENABLED,
		'visibility'		=> Mage_Catalog_Model_Product_Visibility::VISIBILITY_BOTH,
		'type_id'			=> Mage_Catalog_Model_Product_Type::TYPE_SIMPLE,
		'tax_class_id'		=> 2,
		'attribute_set_id'	=> 4,
		'category_ids'		=> array(CATEGORY_ID),
		'website_ids'		=> $website_ids,
	));
	
	
	if ($i%4 == 0) // give some products a special price
	{
		$product->setSpecialPrice(number_format($special_price / 10, 2, '.', ''));
	}
	
	$product->setStockData(array( 
		'is_in_stock' => 1, 
		'qty' => 99,
		'manage_stock' => 1,
	)); 
	
	try {
		$product->save();
	} catch (Exception $e) {
		echo "ERROR: {$e}\n";
		die();
	}
	
	$product_id = $product->getIdBySku($dummy_sku);
	$product = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->load($product_id);
	
	mkdir('tmpimage', 0777);
	for ($j = 0; $j < IMAGES_PER_PRODUCT; $j++)
	{
		// download and save file
		$image_source 	= file_get_contents(IMAGE_API);
		$image_name 	= dirname(__FILE__)."/tmpimage/{$dummy_sku}}_{$j}.jpg";
		file_put_contents($image_name , $image_source);
		chmod($image_source, 0777);
		
		try {
			$product->addImageToMediaGallery($image_name , ($j==0) ? array( 'thumbnail', 'small_image', 'image' ) : null, true, false );
		} catch (Exception $e){
			echo "ERROR: {$e}\n";
		}
		
		unlink($image_name);
		unset($download);
	}
	
	try {
		$product->save();
	} catch (Exception $e) {
		echo "ERROR: {$e}\n";
	}
}